Venezuelans Urge Supreme Court to Reject Trump’s Appeal of Deportation Block

A district court, upheld on appeal, ordered a halt to the operation that the administration was carrying out under the Alien Enemies Act.

U.S. military personnel escort alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and the MS-13 gang recently deported by the U.S. government to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, as part of an agreement with the Salvadoran government, in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, on March 30, 2025. Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via Reuters

The Venezuelan illegal immigrants suing President Donald Trump over his use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to deport them are asking the Supreme Court to reject his appeal of a lower court order blocking the deportations.

The district court’s block “ensures that, based on an unprecedented peacetime invocation of the AEA, additional individuals are not hurried off to a brutal foreign prison, potentially for the rest of their lives, without judicial process,” attorneys for the illegal immigrants said in an April 1 brief to the Supreme Court.